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Cheat Sheet for Thursday’s Prop 8 Hearing
Prop 8’s back in court — but why, exactly? I’ll answer all your questions about what’s going on this time. Plus, the backstory behind the most effective — and adorable — marriage equality video ever made. Prop 8’s legal team celebrates a bill in Nigeria that would throw you in prison for over a decade just for witnessing a gay couple getting married. All that, plus robot marriage, and one gay couple looks back on their 50-year romance in a new book.
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Nigeria Senate approves wide-ranging anti-gay marriage bill
Nigeria’s Senate has passed an “anti-gay marriage” bill, extending its scope by also criminalizing gay clubs and organizations, and making public displays of affection between gays punishable with 10 years imprisonment.
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Vote on Nigeria’s proposed anti-gay law scheduled for next week
A vote on Nigeria’s proposed anti-gay law is scheduled for next week, according to the group Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same Sex Laws.
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St. Petersburg parliament temporarily postpones anti-gay law
St. Petersburg’s parliament on Wednesday said it would review a controversial bill banning so-called “gay propaganda that targets children.” The law — which has been slammed by critics as too discriminative — has been postponed in order to clarify its wording.
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Legislative assembly in St. Petersburg, Russia approves anti-gay law
Russia’s second city has passed a law banning so-called “gay propaganda.” The law, which has been rushed through the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, prohibits so-called propaganda of “sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism, and pedophilia to minors.”
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Pakistan bans ‘obscene’ text messages, including words ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’
Pakistan has ordered cellular phone carriers to ban the use of about 1,500 words from text messaging that government officials have deemed indecent or offensive — including the words “gay,” “lesbian,” and “homosexual.”
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South Africa denies Congolese albino gay man asylum
A gay, albino Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) refugee has been refused asylum in South Africa in what advocates say is an increasing pattern of refusals for LGBT asylum seekers.
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St. Petersburg latest Russian region to propose anti-gay law
Two regions of Russia – Arkhangelsk and Ryazan – have passed laws banning what they call gay “propoganda” — laws that have been deemed constitutional by Russian courts despite the chilling of free speech and the attack on LGBT organizing, and ability to protest that they represent. Now the St. Petersburg region wants to introduce a similar law.
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Killer gets 30 years for brutal slaying of Ugandan gay rights activist
A Ugandan court on Thursday sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for the brutal slaying earlier this year of David Kato, one of Uganda’s leading gay rights activists.
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Australian Member of Parliament suggests: If you’re gay, ‘grow out of it’
Fiona Simpson, a member of the Queensland Parliament, who is actively seeking a ministerial position in a Liberal National Party government that would entail responsibilities for community services and women’s services agencies, is being criticized for a 2002 speech where she said that “people can grow out of the homosexual lifestyle thanks to efforts by “compassionate” support groups” such as Exodus Ministries International.